Events in Music
- Jun 19 Second of two legendary recording sessions by Delta Blues musician Robert Johnson with producer Don Law at the Vitagraph Studios, Dallas, Texas
- Jul 3 Del Mar Turf Club, with crooner Bing Crosby as president and actor Pat O'Brien as a club officer, opens for racing
- Jul 10 Dutch Django Reinhardt's "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club"
- Nov 13 NBC forms first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
- Nov 21 Dmitri Shostakovich's 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad, with the ovation lasting over an hour
- Nov 27 Pro-labor musical revue "Pins & Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU
- Dec 25 Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st "Symphony of the Air" concert over NBC Radio
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- Jan 27 Musician Nat King Cole (17) weds dancer Nadine Robinson in Ypsilanti, Michigan
- Jun 26 Canadian-American silent film actress Mary Pickford (45) weds American actor and band leader Charles Rogers (32)
- Jul 11 Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas (22) marries dancer Caitlin McNamara (22) in Penzance, Cornwall
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